In its continuing quest to court a more youthful audience, The New York Times Magazine this week is a special issue on Music 2002. Do you want to know:

• what Beck and Moby are listening to these days (Update: the .pdf of what’s on Beck’s iPod is a popular download, according to blogdex)
  

• what it’s like to be in a Guns’n’Roses tribute band
  

• where music will be coming from, according to Kevin Kelly
  

• how Sue Mingus got swept up in the fury that was Charles
  

• whether we should begin making opera relevant again by basing it on lurid talk shows
  

• how (even now) to become an indie-rock success
  

• who some of the ‘downtown girls’ (shouldn’t that be ‘grrrls’?) who help make “Lower Manhattan the center of female music-making” are
  

• how to make a killer (literally) folk song